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Senate Roll Call 56, 94th Congress · March 11, 1975

TO AMEND S. 7, PROVIDING FOR THE REGULATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF SURFACE COAL MINING OPERATIONS, BY WITHDRAWING FROM ALL FORMS OF SURFACE MINING ANY FEDERAL COAL DEPOSITS WHERE THE SURFACE IS OWNED BY ANOTHER PARTY.

39 yea · 56 nay2 not voting or present
Democrat29 yea · 30 nay
Republican11 yea · 26 nay
Independent0 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 7

Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act

Policy area: Mines and mineral resources — assigned by Library of Congress subject specialists, not by this site.

How this vote is scored

Which tracked issues this roll call counts toward, and which way a yea vote moves a member on each. Direction is decided per issue, because one bill can push two issues opposite ways.

  • Climate & EnergyA yea counts toward “Climate action”

    model(0.90): Restricting surface coal mining advances environmental and climate priorities.

    Tagged by: keyword:coal

    Axis: Climate action ← → Fossil fuel priority

Who voted which way

Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.

Yea (40)

Nay (57)

Not voting or present (2)

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